Welcome

The Center for Neural Informatics, Structures, and
Plasticity (CN3) pursues fundamental breakthroughs in
neuroscience by fostering neuroinformatic and computational
approaches to neuroplasticity and neuroanatomy. By bringing
together faculty expertise in these multiple disciplines,
the Center provides opportunities for cross-training in
neuroscience, psychology, and engineering, both at the
graduate and postdoctoral levels. CN3 researchers
investigate the relationship between brain structure,
activity, and function from the subcellular to the network
level, with a specific focus on the biophysical and
biochemical mechanisms of learning and memory. In the long
term, we seek to create large-scale, biologically plausible
network models of entire portions of the mammalian brain,
such as the hippocampus, to understand the neural circuits
and cellular events underlying the expression, storage, and
retrieval of associative memory.